Will deleting all Elastic indices that match on an Index Pattern also delete the Index Pattern?

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Context: I am working in Kibana. It is hooked up to an elastic cluster running in docker.

Here is the objective:

  • I currently have an index pattern named objects-* that matches on several indices of the form objects-name, objects-pattern, etc.
  • I have created several visualizations that use this index pattern and I don't want these visualizations to begin erroring and become unusable (this tends to happen when I mess with indices or patterns)
  • Shortly, the indices described are going to be deleted and the same data is going to be put in to indices of the form objects-sco-name, objects-sco-pattern, etc. Essentially the characters sco and going to be added to the index names.
  • Note that these new indices should still match the existing index pattern objects-*

Will the existing index pattern be affected by the actions described? Will my Kibana visualizations be affected?

Thank you

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1 Answers

No it won't affect your visualizations as its based on the index pattern and there will be new index added matching your index-pattern, you can easily test it by creating simulating it with some test index patterns and indices rather than guessing and worrying about it.

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